Parker - A history of Greece: 1300 to 30 BC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parker, Victor, 1966

A history of Greece : 1300 to 30 bc / Victor Parker.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9034-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4051-9033-6 (pbk.) 1. GreeceHistoryTo 146 b.c. 2. GreeceHistory146 b.c.323 a.d. I. Title.

DF214.P35 2014

938dc23

2013028385

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: 19th century watercolor painting of Greek trireme, by Rafael Monleon. Museo Naval / Ministerio de Marina, Madrid. Photo Album / Oronoz / AKG

Cover design by Richard Boxhall Design Associates

Katherinae Adshead

Mentori Collegae Amicae

librum auctor DDD.

Figures

Satellite image of the Isthmus

Position of Miletus on Gulf of Meander River in ancient times

The exposed eastern side of Mt. Athos

Satellite image of Cape Malea

Eurotas River

The theater of Epidaurus (fourth century bc )

The Euripus today

The temple of Apollo at Delphi, with the theater in the foreground and the Pleistos Valley in the background

Satellite image of the Aegean Sea and surrounding land

Bull Leaper Fresco from Knosos

Early Helladic sealings from Lerna

The Lion Gate at the entrance to the citadel of Mycene

The Mask of Agamemnon

Linear B, Linear A, and Cretan Hieroglyphic

Plan of the Minoan Palace of Knosos

Plan of the Mycenaean Palace of Pylos

The ruins of the citadel of Tiryns today

Mycenaean chariot from stele from Shaft Graves at Mycene

0 Hunting scenes on a ceremonial sword from the Shaft Graves

1 Mycenaean Psi and Phi figurines

Relief from Medinet Habu showing sea-borne invaders attacking Egypt

Geometric pottery from Athens, eighth century bc

Orientalizing pottery from Corinth, late seventh century bc

Population growth in Greece

Metal objects in the Dark Age and early Archaic period

Coin from Metapontum

Ortygia, the former island, on which Syracuse lay

The site of Zancle/Messene

Satellite image of Cape Taenarum

Hydria from Athens, circa 520, possibly depicting the Enneakrounos

The tunnel of Eupalinus on Samos

The temple of Zeus in Athens

The Acropolis of Athens

The demes of Attica

Reconstruction of the map of the world (Hecataeus'?) which Herodotus ridiculed

Darius' inscription at Behistun

Two hoplite phalanxes meet circa 650 bc, on the Chigi Vase from Corinth

The soros at Marathon

Modern reconstruction of an ancient trireme

Thermopylae today

The Acropolis of Athens

The theater of Dionysus on the slope of the Acropolis

An ostrakon with the inscription Themistocles of (the Deme) Phrearhi

The natural fortress of Mt. Ithome seen from the city of Messene at its foot

A herm in front of an altar, on an amphora (circa 465 bc )

Operations around Syracuse

Third-century bc theater of Syracuse

A scene from Euripides' Alcmene on a Sicilian crater from the mid-fourth century

Fifth-century temple of Hera at Acragas

Gold ossuary from Philip II's tomb at Aegae

The treasury of the Athenians at Delphi

The Cilician Gates today

The Alexander bust (Roman copy of Greek original)

Alexander's conquests

Four coins of the Diadochi

The site of Taras today

Apulian bell crater, circa 355340 bc , depicting a mythological scene, the Judgment of Paris

The so-called Ludovisi Group; Roman copy of original from Pergamum circa 220s bc

The Winged Nike of Samothrace, circa 190 bc

Coins with portraits of Demetrius of Bactria

Coin of Eucratides

Coin of Antiochus VIII Grypus